With mistakes from the Cruzeiro defender and the Corinthians goalkeeper, Brazil suffered an unprecedented defeat to Japan after opening up a two-goal lead
The Brazilian team’s 3-2 defeat to Japan, after opening a two-goal lead, reignited the debate about the team’s performance and the quality of the players called up. In the program Hit Readyas well Young Panpresenter Thiago Asmar, known as Pilhado, and commentator Mauro Cezar Pereira expressed strong criticism of the team and, in particular, of two athletes who were on the field: defender Fabrício Bruno, from Cruzeiro, and goalkeeper Hugo Souza, from Corinthians, who failed to score goals for the Japanese.
Pilhado started the discussion with a blunt tone, stating that the Brazilian team has been “trash since 2010” and that the performance against Japan was “ridiculous”. He highlighted the unprecedented nature of the defeat: “Brazil had never lost to Japan, which is almost non-existent in football.” Pilhado did not spare the players from individual failures: “What happened to Fabrício Bruno was ridiculous. It was Hugo Souza’s mistake for the third goal.” For him, the comeback after leading 2-0 against a “weak” team like Japan is a “wake-up call”.
Mauro Cezar endorsed the criticism of individual failures, but deepened the analysis of the players’ capabilities. According to the commentator, goalkeeper Hugo Souza and defender Fabrício Bruno, whose mistakes were crucial in the match, “have no level” for the Brazilian team. Pereira was emphatic: “Hugo, I think he’s a goalkeeper who doesn’t have the level to play for the Brazilian team, I’ve always said that. He’s a goalkeeper who makes a lot of mistakes,” he declared.. He added that “andThere are better defenders” than Cruzeiro. “A self-confidence is much bigger than his football.”
Regarding Hugo, the journalist assesses that “at most” he can go to the World Cup “to get a penalty”, remembering the method used by Louis van Gaal in the Dutch team in 2014, with Tim Krull taking Cillessen’s place after the end of extra time. “I think you can take a goalkeeper to take a penalty. If he [Carlo AAncelotti] I think this is really important. I don’t remember Ancelotti using this, this method before, but, anyway, if he weighs in this way. Now, to play, Hugo is below other goalkeepers. “Weverton is better than him. He was called up several times, he didn’t play because the other two were better than him, Alisson, Ederson. Today Ederson, from Atlético-MG, is better than him. For me, Léo Jardim, from Vasco, is better than him today.”
Mauro recalled that Flamengo, the former club of both players, “didn’t want to keep either of them”, selling Hugo Souza to Corinthians — after a loan to Chaves, from Portugal — and Fabrício Bruno to Cruzeiro. “It could be Palmeiras, it could be another Brazilian club. But the fact is that Flamengo didn’t want to keep Hugo and didn’t want to keep Fabrício. Fabrício would be a reserve at Flamengo, he wanted to play and left. And Hugo is the same thing. He was loaned to Portugal, then to Corinthians and finally acquired definitively by Corinthians. They are not bad professionals, Fabrício is not a bad defender, Hugo is not a bad goalkeeper. But they are not at the level you expect from a Brazilian national team player. And today the individual failures of the two were crucial in Brazil’s defeat. In a very disorganized team, full of transformations.“
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